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Fawley relocated to London, after he married his wife Olive, and he continued to work for the telecoms company.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I don’t have to work much, and these numbers are possible,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
For now, the work is basic research and does not immediately produce a new product or technology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Raman: We have a number of groups that we work closely with in government.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Asians, Hispanics, whites, and Blacks work, pray, study, and play together and are paid the same salary for doing the same work at the compound.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Through works spanning two centuries and more than 60 tribes and nations, the exhibition shows how these often marginalized groups represented, celebrated and advocated for themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Book of Jubilees, one of the important works preserved in the Qumran library, strongly criticizes the prevailing lunar calendar.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Certain people have their own little fiefdoms or specific knowledge of how government bureaucracy works, which gives them a leg up in internecine battles.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
“It’s fun money,” said Casey who, like Araujo, is a teacher as well as the clock operator at Galaxy games, where she works alongside her husband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I mean, isn’t that how it always works when you’re the new kid?”
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
About a third of the founders are serial entrepreneurs, Zou said, while a third previously worked at a big tech company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Which is why I have trouble getting particularly worked up about the expensive-sauce aisle.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
"My first thought was, 'That guy?'" said a former OpenAI employee who knew of Coxon when they both worked at the company.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
After Tanook Hines dropped a third-down pass, USC lined up to draw Rutgers offside, and it worked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Anna May had worked at Ville de Paris.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
He largely espouses esoteric prognostications of how 8 billion human deaths could be wrought by hostile machines, and even though many that admit this outcome is unlikely, it takes up a lot of their attention.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
The real-life drama seems somehow appropriate for the story of a London crime family wrought with family tensions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
When they start shooting a movie together, they begin to understand their connection to this ancient evil, and their place in a cyclical inferno wrought by absent parents and bad weather.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
But the transformations wrought by Gaudí and his collaborators are a triumph of architectural and sculptural imagination that has no real analogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“But I do know what evils the Mirror wrought during the war. We have to ask ourselves if...well, if it is worth the price.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
After years of working with Eagle and UCLA, the Natural History Museum concluded that the improved technology could produce valuable results while requiring only very small samples.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
There’ll be, like, one or two people there, but our team is out there working with them, and they’re usually able to get in the queue and get back indoors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
For comparison, it’s estimated that SpaceX has roughly 11,100 working Starlink satellites, according to data from the astronomer Jonathan McDowell.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026
She served in Ohio’s state legislature for nearly a decade and spent the first part of her political career working from a wheelchair after suffering a stroke in 2000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Just like that, she was another Chinese daughter working at her father’s business.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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